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From: bs%linus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert D. Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Women's Abilities at Details
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Date: 19 Jul 88 16:38:24 GMT
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In article <12218@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> fester@math.berkeley.edu writes:
:This posting motivated me to go compile the data I had requested in
:another newsgroup, regarding what subfields of math women tended to go
:into.  I had requested that data because I had noticed what seemed to
:phenomenon: namely, that women seem to be clustered in algebra and
:topology.
:
 
etc.

:Here's the data I recieved: (I don't include things like operations
:research, because I was only interested in math proper, but thanks
:for writing.)
:
:  3 algebraists (unspecified)
:  2 algebraic number theorists
:  1 combinatorics (did not complete the program, though)
:  1 topologist (unspecified)
:  6 algebraic topologists
:  1 SCV
:  1 functional analysis
:  a comment, without numerical data, "a majority were in algebra
:                                        or topology"
 
My wife is an analytic number theorist.
 
Estimation of error terms for arithmetic functions, asymptotic analyis,
techniques like the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, etc. etc. are
about as finely detailed as one can get in mathematics. Try reading
"Sieve Methods" for example (Halberstam & Richert).
 

Bob Silverman